corporate nun

English

Noun

corporate nun (plural corporate nuns)

1. a woman who dedicates her life to her job, especially at the expense of romance
   • 2008, Willie Brown: Basic Brown: My Life and our Times

     In those photos of her wandering around Capitol Hill to meet the senators, she looked unprepared. Not like a politician with a message to impart, but like a corporate lawyer in her cubicle. She looked like a corporate nun.

   • 2007, Michael Hollister: Salishan

     The corporate nun turned from the elevator smiling at them helpfully.

   • 1998, Elaine Viets: Rubout

     Wendy was a sad creature, a corporate nun who dedicated her life to serving the Gazette. She had a permanently martyred air and no life outside the newsroom.